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PREFATORY  NOTE 

This  Ijist  is  composed  mainly  of  titles  of  recent  discussions  of  negro 
sutirage.  There  are,  however,  introduced  a  number  of  works  which 
treat  of  the  larger  question  of  reconstruction,  and  some  of  the  writ- 
ings at  the  time  of  the  enactment  of  the  Fourteenth  and  Fifteenth 
amendments  conferring  suffrage  upon  the  freedmen. 

The  advocates  and  opponents  of  negro  suffrage  are  both  represented 
in  the  List.  An  attempt  has  been  made  to  include  representative  opin- 
ions on  either  side. 

The  subject  is  discussed  in  the  reports  of  the  general  debate  on 
the  Apportionment  bill  of  1901,  printed  in  the  Congressional  Record, 
60th  Congress,  2d  session,  vol.  3-1,  pt.  1,  pp.  557-.570,  .590-619,  647- 
669,  707-749;  and  in  the  speeches  in  the  Appendix  of  the  same  volume 
(printed  with  pt.  4)  as  follows:  Adolph  Meyer,  pp.  47-52;  Edward  D. 
Crumpacker,  pp.  67-75;  Andrew  F.  Fox,  pp.  75-79;  Albert  D.  Shaw, 
pp.  82-88;  Charles  H.  Grosvenor,  pp.  88-90. 

There  were  further  general  discussions  March  31,  1902,  reported  in 
the  Congressional  Record,  vol.  35,  pt.  4,  pp.  3483-3491;  and  on  Feb. 
24,  1905,  Mr.  Crumpacker  made  a  speech  on  the  subject  which  is 
printed  in  the  Congressional  Record,  vol.  39,  pt.  4,  pp.  3324-3331. 

A  speech  by  tJ.  W.  Keifer,  March  15,  1906,  is  printed  in  the  Con- 
gressional Record,  59th  Congress,  1st  session,  March  19,  1906,  pp. 

4033-4042. 

A.  P.  C.  Griffin 

Chief  BibVwgTajpher 
Herbert  Putnam 

Librarian  of  Congress 

Washington^  D.  C.^  May  15,  1906 


LIST   OF    DISCUSSIONS   ON   THE    FOURTEENTH    AND 

FIFTEENTH  AMENDMENTS  WITH  SPECIAL 

llEFERENCE  TO  NEGRO  SUFFRAGE 


Abbott,  Lj^maii.     A  national  problem.     Editorial. 

(///  Outlook,  vol.  73,  Apr.  25,  1903,  pp.  950-952.) 

On  the  race  pro1)leni. 

"The  South  patiently  submitted  to  the  experiment  imposed  upon 
it,  against  its  will,  of  universal  suffrage,  until  the  conditions  which 
thatsuffrageinvolved  became  intolerable  to  whiteand  blackalike." 

Adams,  Charles  Francis.     Reflex  light  from  Africa. 

{In  The  Century  magazine,  vol.  72,  May,  1906,  pp.  101-111.) 

"The  Negro,  after  emancipation,  should  have  been  dealt  with,  not 
as  a  political  equal,  ...  he  should  have  been  treated  as  a  ward 
and  dependent — firmly,  but  in  a  spirit  of  kindness  and  absolute 
justice." 

The  Alabama  case  (suffrage  decision).     Editorial. 

{I7i  Outlook,  vol.  74,  May  9,  1903,  pp.  95-96.) 

Alexander,   Hooper.      The   negro   and  the   fourteenth  amendment. 
Letter  dated  Atlanta,  Georgia,  Fe))ruar\'  20,  1904. 
{In  Harper's  weekly,  vol.  48,  Mar.  19,  1904,  page  438.) 

Discusses  the  influence  of  the  amendment  upon  negro  crime. 

Ambler,  Charles  H.     Disfranchisement  in  West  Virginia.     I-II. 

(/;i  Yale  review,  vol.  14,  May,  1905,  pp.  38-59;  Aug.  1905,  pp.  155-180.) 

Beecher,  Henry  Ward.     Mr.  Beecher  on  reconstruction. 

{In  The  Outlook,  vol.  74,  May  30,  1903,  pp.  280-281.) 

Letter  to  the  Louisville  Courier- Journal,  March  30,  1885. 

Suffrage,  Mr.  Beecher  says,  was  given  to  the  negroes,  not  from  a 
belief  of  their  fitness  for  suffrage  but  from  a  conviction  that  it  was 
necessary  for  their  defense,  and  the  result  has  shown  that  they 
have  not  misused  their  power. 

Subject  of  an  editorial  in  the  same  number  of  The  Outlook,  under 
the  caption  "A  page  of  history",  in  which  the  attitude  of  Presi- 
dent Lincohi  on  negro  suffrage  is  also  given. 

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Blaine,  James  G.     Political  discussions,  legislative,  diplomatic,  and 
popular,  1856-1886. 
Norwich^  Conn. :   The  Henry  Bill  publishmg  company.,  1887. 
vi,  (^),  5^5  pp.     8^. 

The  Fourteenth  amendment  as  a  basis  of  reconstruction,  pp.  61-71. 

Ought  the  negro  to  be  disfranchised?  Ought  he  to  have  been 
enfranchised?     pp.  278-299. 

Consists  of  a  campaign  speech  by  Mr.  Blaine,  Aug.  29,  1S66,  and  an 
article  originally  printed  in  The  North  American  review,  defend- 
ing negro  suffrage. 

Boyle,  James  E.     Has  the  fifteenth  amendment  been  jvistitied? 

{In  Arena,  vol.  31,  May  1904,  pp.  481-488.) 

Pronounces  "  this  experiment  in  political  science  as  an  unqualified 
failure." 

Brannon,  Henry.     A  treatise  on  the  rights  and  privileges  guaranteed 
by  the  fourteenth  amendment  to  the  Constitution  of  the 
United  States. 
Cincinnati:    W.  IT.  Anderson  c&  co.,  1901.     ^«,  562  pp.     8'^. 

Discusses  the  first  and  fifth  sections  of  the  Fourteenth  amendment 
under  the  captions  "Citizenship",  etc.  As  arranged  it  constitutes 
a  compendium  of  references  to  court  decisions. 

Braxton,  A.  Caperton.     The  fifteenth  amendment — an  account  of  its 
enactment. 

{In  Virginia  state  bar  association.  Report  of  the  fifteenth  annual 
meeting,  pp.  243-308.     Richmond,  1903.     8°.) 

Brown,  William  Garrott.     The  lower  South  in  American  history. 

iYt?//j>   York:   The   Macmillan  compa7iy.i   1902.      scl,    (i),   271 
pp.     12"^. 

"Shifting  the  white  man's  burden'',  pp.  245-271. 

Burgess,  John  W.     Present  problems  of  constitutional  law. 

{In  Political  science  quarterly,  vol.  19,  Dec.  1904,  pp.  545-578.) 

"Two  great  problems  have  confronted  the  American  practice  dur- 
ing the  last  fifty  years,  neither  of  which  has  1)een  satisfactorily 
solved,  and  neither  of  which,  I  fear,  will  be  so  solved  without  fur- 
ther constitutional  amendment. 

"The  first  problem  concerns  the  meaning  of  the  thirteenth  and 
fourteenth  amendments,  which,  with  the  fifteenth,  make  up  the 
'  constitutional  product  of  the  Civil  War." 

Reconstruction  and  the  Constitution,  1866-1876, 

JVevj  YorJt:  Charles  Sc7'ihner''s  sons.,  1902.     12°.     {American 
history  series.) 

"Ratification  of  the  fourteenth  amendment,"  pp.  202  et  serj. 


LIST    ON    NEGRO    SUFFRAOP].  7 

CafFey,  Francis  ix.     Huffraoe  limitations  at  the  South. 

{hi  Political  science  quarterly,  vol.  20,  Mar.  1905,  pp.  53-67.) 

A  discusision  of  the  suffra<^e  provisioriH  in  the  conHtitutionw  of  several 
of  the  .Southern  states  in  which  comparison  is  iiiaih;  witli  limi- 
tations of  suffrage  in  the  North,  with  argument  against  reduction 
of  representation  in  the  South. 

Chamberlain,  D.  H.     The  foiii-teenth  and  tifteenth  amendments. 

{In  Nation,  vol.  77,  Aug.  20,  IHOli,  page  151.) 

A  communication  calling  attention  to  the  question  as  to  the  power 
of  Congress  to  enforce  the  second  section  of  the  fourteenth 
amendment. 

The  Colour  qaestion  in  the  United  States. 

(//(  Edinburgh  review,  vol.  201,  Jan.  1905,  pp.  5.5-76.) 

Discussion  based  on  Census  Bulletin  no.  8,  1904,  "Negroes  in  the 
United  States;"  "The  negro  problem,"  New  York,  1903;  "South- 
ern thoughts  for  northern  thinkers,"  by  Mrs.  Murphy,  New  York, 
1904;  "The  South  and  the  negro,"  by  Bishop  Charles  B. 
Galloway,  New  York,  1904;  "The  work  and  influence  of  Hamp- 
ton," The  Armstrong  Association,  1904. 

The  conclusion  is  that  "The  bestowal  of  an  educational  franchise 
on  all  negroes  in  the  States,  and  the  drawing  of  no  distiru^tion 
between  North  and  South,  would  ensure  justice  to  the  Southern 
black  whilst  causing  the  least  irritation  to  the  Southern  white. 
The  regulation  of  the  elective  franchise  (so  far  as  negroes  are 
concerned)  should  no  longer  remain  a  State,  but  should  become  a 
Federal  matter." 

Colquhoun,  Archibald  R.     The  future  of  the  negro. 

{In.  North  American  review,  vol.  176,  May,  1903,  pp.  657-674.) 

Advocates  education  of  the  negro  but  is  unfavorable  to  his  having 
rights  of  citizenship. 

Colquitt,  Alfred  H.     Is  the  negro  vote  suppressed? 

{In  Forum,  vol.  4,  Nov.,  1887,  pp. ^268-278. ) 

Keply  to  article  by  J.  B.  Foraker  in  The  Forum  for  August,  1887. 
The  writer,  using  the  state  of  Georgia  as  an  example,  seeks  to 
show  that  the  negro  has  not  been  denied  suffrage. 

Crumpacker,  PI  D.     Speech  on  the  reduction  of  representation  in 
the  South,  in  the  House,  Feb.  24,  1905. 

{In  Congressional  record,  vol.  39,  58th  Congress,  3d  session,  pp. 
3324-3331.) 

The  Disfranchisement  of  the  negro:  a  brief  for  the  defense. 

{In  American  lawyer,  vol.  1,  June  1903,  page  252.) 

Extract  from  the  "Memphis  commercial." 


8  LIBRARY    OF    CONGRESS. 

Dos  Passos,  John  R.     The  negro  question. 

{In  Yale  law  journal,  vol.  12,  June  1903,  pp.  467-483.) 

Summarizes  the  provisions  of  the  laws  now  regulating  suffrage,  dis- 
cusses the  effect  of  negro  suffrage  North  and  South,  and  suggests 
as  a  solution  of  the  evils  a  "  return  to  old  and  perfectly  natural 
conditions  by  again  unqualifiedly  placing  this  question  of  suffrage 
with  the  respective  states"  which  "requires  the  repeal  of  the 
second  section  of  the  14th  and  all  of  the  15th  amendment". 

Drake,  B.  Frank.     The  negro  before  the  Supreme  Court. 

{In  Albany  law  journal,  vol.  66,  Aug.  1904,  pp.  238-248.') 

Includes  synopses  of  decisions  in  negro  suffrage  cases  before  the 
Supreme  Court. 

Dunning,   William  Archibald.     Essays  on  the  civil  war  and  recon- 
struction and  related  topics. 
New  York:   The  Macmillan  company^  1898.     ?'«,  (i),  376  pj^. 

"The  Constitution  of  the  United  States  in  reconstruction."  pp. 
63-135. 

The  "  Failure"  of  negro  suffrage. 

{In  Chautauquan,  vol.  37,  June  1903,  pp.  230-231.) 

The  Fifteenth  amendment  and  the  negro. 

{In  Chautauquan,  vol.  37,  June  1903,  pp.  231-232.) 

Fleming,  Walter  Lynwood.    Civil  war  and  reconstruction  in  Alabama. 
New   Ym^k:    The   Columhia  university  press^    The  Macmil- 
lan company .,  1905.     xxiii.,S15  p)p.     Illustrations.     Plates. 
Portraits.     Maps.     Facsimiles.     8°. 

Flower,  Frank  Abial.     Can  Congress  change  congressional   appor- 
tionment? 

{In  National  magazine  (Boston),  vol.  13,  Jan.  1901,  pp.  282-286.) 

Discusses  reduction  of  representation  of  states  which  disfranchise  the 
negro.     Proposes  other  remedies. 

Foster,    Roger.     Commentaries   on  the  Constittttion  of  the  United 
States  historical  and  judicial.     Vol.  1. 
Boston:   The  Boston  hook  company.,  1895.     8'-^. 

The  Fifteenth  amendment,  pp.  325-335. 

Garner,  James  Wilford.     The  fourteenth  amendment  and  southern 
representation. 

(In  South  Atlantic  quarterly,  vol.  4,  July,  1905,  pp.  209-216.) 

Inquiry  into  "purpose  and  meaning  of  the  second  section  of  the 
Fourteenth  Amendment."  Enlarges  upon  the  difficulties  to  be 
encountered  in  carrying  out  the  mandate  of  the  provision. 


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Garner,  James  Wilt'onl.     Reconstruction  in  Mississippi. 

New  York   arid  London:    The   Macmillan   company^    1901. 
xiil,  (1),  4^2  pp.     12^. 

G-eorge,  James  Z.     Defense  of  tiie  constitution  of  Mississippi.    Speech 
in  the  Senate  of  the  United  States,  Wednesday,  December 
31,  1890. 
{In  Congressional  record,  61st  Congress,  2d  session,  vol.  22,  Appendix, 
pp.  46-96. ) 

Grimke,  Archibald  11.     Why  disfranchisement  is  bad. 

[Philadelphia,  Fa.:  K  A.   Wright,  1906. \     {12)2)1).     8°. 
Cover-title. 

Same. 

(In  Atlantic  monthly,  vol.  94,  July  1904,  i)p.  72-81.) 

Griscom,  Isaac  W.     Constitutional  government  and  the  alternative. 

[Letter] 
( J/i  Nation,  vol.  77,  July  9,  1903,  page  28.) 

On  the  decision  of  the  Supreme  Court  in  regard  to  suffrage  case. 

Republicanism  and  the  so-called  race  problem.     [Letter] 

{In  Nation,  vol.  77,  July  23,  1903,  pp.  71-73.) 

Drawn  out  in  response  to  what  the  writer  terms  "the  favor  with 
which  various  propositions,  to  repeal,  suspend  or  circumvent  the 
fourteenth  and  fifteenth  amendments  have  been  received  in  all 
parts  of  the  country." 

The  sophistry  of  oppression.     [Letter] 

{hi  Nation,  vol.  77,  July  30,  1903,  page  92.) 

Reply  to  an  editorial  in  Harper's  weekly  which  the  writer  thinks 
"augments  the  clamor  for  the  disfranchisement  of  the  negroes." 

Grosvenor,  Charles  H.  Disfranchisement  of  the  negro  and  the  Con- 
stitution: the  fourteenth  amendment  a  living  vital  issue 
in  this  campaign. 

{In  Era  magazine,  vol.  14,  Oct.  1904,  pp.  305-310.) 

The  negro  problem  in  the  South. 

{In  Forum,  vol.  29,  Aug.  1900,  pp.  720-725.) 

"For  more  than  thirty  years  now,  about  one-third  of  a  century,  the 
colored  man  has  been  a  voter.  During  that  time  the  Southern 
States  have  flourished  beyond  all  comparison.  The  property,  the 
prosperity,  the  happiness,  the  good  government,  the  education, 
and  the  civilization  of  the  Southern  States  have  increased  in  a 
ratio  most  gratifying;  and  all  this  has  been  accomplished  with 
the  political  rights  of  the  colored  man  unassailed." 

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Grunton,  George.     Is  negro  suffrage  a  failure? 

{In  Institute  of  social  economics,  Lecture  bulletin,  vol.  6,  Feb.  16, 
1903,  pp.  203-222.) 

"The  South  is  justified  in  asking  the  whole  nation,  and  the  civil- 
ized world  for  that  matter,  frankly  to  recognize  that  negro  suf- 
frage has  been  a  failure  and  is  a  menace  to  the  southern  states, 
and  the  nation  has  the  same  right  to  ask  the  southern  states  with 
equal  frankness  to  face  and  cheerfully  accept  reduced  representa- 
tion in  Congress." 

Guthrie,  William  D.     Lectures  on  the  fourteenth  article  of  amend- 
ment to  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States,  delivered 
before  the  Dwight  alumni  association,  New  York,  April- 
May,  1898. 
Boston:   Little^  Brown  and  coniuany,  1898.     xxviii^  265  jyjj. 
8^. 

Lectures,  intended  as  an  outline  of  the  scope  of  the  fourteenth 
amendment.  Treats  of  history  of  the  amendment,  princijiles  of 
construction  and  interpretation,  due  process  of  law,  equal  pro- 
tection of  the  laws,  and  rules  of  practice. 

Hallo"well,  Richard  P.     Whj'  the  negro  was  enfranchised,  Negro 

suffrage  justified.     Published  at  the  request  of  colored 
citizens  of  Boston.     2d  ed. 

Boston:    George  II.  H^llis  co.,  printers,  1903.     35pp.  8°. 

Defends  the  wisdom  of  the  fourteenth  and  fifteenth  amendment 
legislation:  gives  a  brief  survey  of  reconstruction  in  South  Carol- 
ina, which  he  thinks  shows  that  the  negro  is  entitled  to  suffrage. 

Hampton,  Wade.     What  negro  supremacy  means. 

{In  Forum,  vol.  5,  June,  1888,  pp.  383-395.) 

An  exposition  of  conditions  in  South  Carolina  from  1869  to  1876  to 
show  evils  of  negro  political  domination. 

Hart,  Albert  Bushnell.     The  realities  of  negro  suffrage. 

{In  American  political  science  association.  Proceedings  at  its  sec- 
ond annual  meeting,  pp.  149-165.     Lancaster,  Pa.,  1906.     8°.) 

An  historical  review. 

Criticizes  the  suffrage  system  in  the  South  on  tM'^o  grounds:  "First, 
that  the  system  is  really,  although  not  openly,  a  discrimination 
between  men  on  the  ground,  not  of  their  character  or  their  acqui- 
sitions, but  of  their  color;  secondly,  that  it  means  the  permanent 
disfranchisement  of  the  greater  part  of  the  negro  race,  and  their 
consequent  relegation  to  a  position  in  which  one  of  the  most 
effective  springs  of  thrift  and  ambition  is  removed." 

Herbert,  Hilary  A.  aiid  others.     Why  the  solid  South?    or,   Kecon- 
struction  and  its  results. 
Baltimore:  R.  II.  Woodward <&co.,  1890.     xvii.,lfL'2 p)}^-     16°. 


LIST    ON    NEGRO    SUFFRAGE.  11 

Hood,  J.  W,     The  enfranchisement  of  the  negro  no  blunder. 
{In  Independent,  vol.  55,  Aug.  27,  1903,  pp.  2021-2024.) 

Is  negro  suffrage  a  faihirc^     Editorial. 

{In  Independent,  vol.  55,  Fel).  12,  1903,  pp.  400-401.) 

Denies  that  the  experiment  of  negro  suffrage  has  failed  for  good. 

Johnston,  Frank.     Suffrage  and  reconstruction  in  Mississippi. 

{Li  Mississippi  historical  society.  Publications,  vol.  0,  pp.  141-244. 
Oxford,  Mississippi,  1902.     8°.) 

Keifer,  Joseph  Warren.     Power  of  Congress  to  reduce  representa- 
tion in  Congress  and  in  the  electoral  college:  a  reply. 

{Bi  North  American  review,  vol.  182,  Feb.  1906,  pp.  228-238.) 

Discusses  the  origin  and  meaning  of  the  fourteenth  and  fifteenth 
amendments  in  reply  to  an  article  in  the  North  American  review 
for  October,  1905.  Affirms  that  Congress  has  power  to  reduce 
representation. 

Knox,  John  B.     Reduction  of  representation  in  the  South. 

(7n  Outlook,  vol.  79,  Jan.  21,  1905,  pp.  169-171.) 

Argues  that  the  fourteenth  and  fifteenth  amendments  have  not 
been  contravened  by  any  state  in  the  South;  that  in  Alabama  the 
intent  was  "to  place  the  power  of  government  in  the  hands  of  the 
intelligent  and  virtuous",  and  cites  the  case  of  a  court  decision 
in  Alabama  wherein  the  rights  of  a  colored  voter  was  recognized. 

Love,  John  L.     The  disfranchisement  of  the  negro. 

Washington,  D.  C. :  PiMished  hy  the  Academy,  1899.  (2), 
27  pp.  8"^.  {The  A7fierica  negro  academy.  Occasional 
jpapers,  no.  6.) 

McKinley,  Albert  E.     Two  new  southern  constitutions. 

{In  Political  science  quarterly,  vol.  18,  Sept.,  1903,  pp.  480-511.) 
Alabama  and  Virginia. 

Maxey,  Edwin.     The  enforcement  of  the  fourteenth  amendment. 

{In  Albany  law  journal,  vol.  66,  Sept.,  1904,  pp.  274-276.) 

Favors  enforcement.  Advocates  reduction  of  representation  in 
Congress  "of  those  states  which  sanction  disfranchisement." 

Merriam,  William   B.     Suffrage.     North  and  South. 

{In  Forum,  vol.  32,  Dec,  1901,  pp.  460-465.) 

Discusses  the  question  of  limitation  of  suffrage  in  the  light  of  the 
census  returns  of  1900. 

Morgan,  John  T.     Negro  suffrage   in   the  South.     Mr.  Pritchard's 
resolution.     Speech  in  the  Senate  of  the  United  States, 
January  8,  1900. 
Washington,  1900.     16  pp.     8^. 
Cover-title. 


12  LIBRARY    OF    CONGRESS. 

Morgan,  John  T.     Shall  negro  majorities  rule? 

{I7i  Forum,  vol.  6,  Feb.,  1889,  pp.  586-599.) 
A  negative  reply  to  the  question  propounded. 

Morse,  E.  L.  C.     The  debasement  of  the  suffrage. 
{In  Nation,  vol.  76,  June  25,  1903,  page  515.) 
On  general  conditions. 

Murphy,  Edgar  Gardner.  Problems  of  the  present  South;  a  discus- 
sion of  certain  of  the  educational,  industrial  and  political 
issues  in  the  southern  states. 

JVew   Yorl:,  London:    The   MacmiUan   co7npany^   190 J^..     xi^ 
355  pp.     m"". 

Negro  suffrage,  pp.  190-201. 

Shall  the  fourteenth  amendment  be  enforced? 

{In  North  American  review,  vol.  180,  Jan.,  1905,  pp.  109-133.) 

"In  opposition  to  the  enforcement  of  the  popular  conception  of  the 
fourteenth  amendment." 

Negro  disfranchisement  in  Maryland, 

{In  Literary  digest,  vol.  31,  Aug.  19,  1905,  pp.  235-236.) 

Comments  of  several  newspapers  on  the  proposed  amendment  to 
the  Constitution  directed  against  negro  suffrage. 

Negro  suffrage  in  the  South.     Extracts  from  newspaper  editorials. 

{In  Gunton's  magazine,  vol.  24,  June,  1903,  pp.  544-546.) 

Negro  suffrage  in  the  South.     Editorial. 

{In  Outlook,  vol.  74,  June  13,  1903,  pp.  399-403.) 

Gives  concise  statements  of  the  suffrage  qualifications  in  Mississippi, 
Alabama,  South  Carolina,  Louisiana,  North  Carolina,  Virginia, 
with  the  conclusion  that  "no  negro  showing  evidences  of  com- 
petence, by  his  possession  of  a  very  limited  amount  of  property, 
and  by  ability  to  read  and  write  the  Englisli  language,  is  per- 
manently excluded  from  the  suffrage  in  any  of  the  Southern 
states. ' ' 

Odgen,  R.     The  Alabama  decision  on  negro  suffrage. 

{In  Nation,  vol.  76,  April  30,  1903,  page  346.) 

— — —  The  caste  notion  of  suffragre. 

{In  Nation,  vol.  77,  Sept.  8,  1903,  page  182.) 

Judge  Parker  on  the  fourteenth  amendment. 

{In  Nation,  vol.  77,  July  16,  1903,  page  44.) 

Criticizes  Judge  Parker's  address  before  the  Bar  association  of  Geor- 
gia in  failing  to  discuss  squarely  the  fourteenth  amendment.  The 
editorial  favors  reduction  of  representation  where  the  negro  is 
denied  the  right  to  vote. 


LIST    ON    NEGRO    HUFFKAGE.  13 

Ogden,  R.     No^to  (lisfriuicliisciiiont  in  Murvliind. 

(///  Nation,  vol.  7s,  .Ian.  7,  liKK,  pp.  (1-7.) 

Examines  tlif  coinlition  in  Maryland  showint,'  tliat  the  n.sual  ar^ju- 
nient  for  dinfranchiseinent  (fear  of  negro  doniiriation)  lias  no 
foundation  as  in  other  soutliern  states.  Predicts  that  with  the 
negro  disfranchisement  Maryland  will  liccoinc  jiermanently  flcm- 
ocratic. 

•  Repul)lican  consistency. 

{In  Nation,  vol.  7(),  Feh.  2fi,  1903,  page  164.) 

Criticism  of  attitude  of  Repuhlican  i)arty  towards  the  negro  and  the 
Tagal. 

The  outcome  of  tlie  new  Mississippi  constitution. 

{Jn  Harper's  weekly,  vol.  47,  Aug.  15,  1903,  ])age  1323.) 

Discussion  l>ased  on  work  ])\-  Frank  Johnston  on  the  franchise,  clause 
of  the  Constitution  of  1890. 

O'Neal,  E.     Power  of  Congress  to  reduce  representation. 

{In  North  American  review,  vol.  181,  Oct.,  1905,  ]>[>.  530-543.) 
Denies  the  power  of  Congress  to  reduce  representation. 

Page,  Thomas  Nelson.     The  disfranchisement  of  the  negro:  one  factor 
in  the  South's  standing-  problem. 

{In  iScribner's  magazine,  vol.  36,  July,  1904,  pp.  15-24.) 

"Personally  the  writer  does  not,  under  existing  conditions,  believe 
in  repealing  the  amendment.  He  would,  indeed,  rather  have  it 
repealed  than  have  a  perpetual  continuance  of  the  evils  that  have 
resulted  from  unrestricted  suffrage." 

The  negTo:  the  Southerner's  problem. 

JVe^v    York:    Charles   jScrihne?'''s  scms,    1901^.      .t//,   (;^),    316 
pp.     12°. 

The  partial  disfranchisement  of  the  negro,  p]i.  120-162. 

Pike,  James  S.     The   prostrate  state:    South  Carolina   under  negro 
government. 

Mw  Yorl-:  J).  Appleton  cfe  co.,  187 J^.     279  irp.     12-. 

Pillsbury,  Albert  E.     The  disfranchisement  of  the  negro.     A  speech 
at  Faneuil  Hall. 
Boston:    Geo.  ][.  Ellis  CO..,  jyr inters.,  1903.     13  2)2J-     S°. 

Denounces  the  disfranchising  constitutions  of  the  South.  Insists 
"that  in  every  state  of  the  Union  black  men  and  white  men  shall 
be  admitted  or  excluded,  no  matter  which,  on  absolutely  equal 
terms." 

Recent  discussion  of  the  fifteenth  amendment. 

(ill  Hari)er'a  weekly,  vol.  47,  July  11,  1903,  page  1144.) 
Discusses  repeal  of  fifteenth  amendment  in  connection  with  Gold- 
win  Smith's  writing  on  the  su])ject. 


14:  LIBRARY    OF    CONGRESS. 

Recent  views  of  the  lifteenth  amendment. 

(In  Harper's  weekly,  vol.  47,  May  23,  1903,  pp.  873-874.) 

Discussion  of  Justice  Brewer's  opinion,  views  of  Gold  win  Smith, 
A.  R.  Colquhoun  and  Dr.  C.  II.  Parkhiirst. 

Reduction  of  southern  representation  in  Congress. 

(/u  Outlook,  vol.  79,  Jan.  7,  1905,  pp.  11-15.) 

Editorial  discussion  in  which  the  proposed  reduction  of  representa- 
tion is  opposed. 

Restricted  snifrao-e  on  trial  (North  Carolina).     Editorial  comment. 

{In  Outlook,  vol.  75,  April  11,  1903,  page  847.) 

Restriction  of  suti'rage  in  Maryland. 

{In  Outlook,  vol.  67,  Feb.  9,  1901,  pp.  329-332;  March  16,  1901,  pp. 
648-650. ) 

Editorial  and  correspondence. 

Root,  Elihn.     Root  on  negro  question.      '' Suti'rage  a  failure."     Sec- 
retary of  war  at  Union  League  anniversary  dinner. 

{In  New  York  tribune,  Feb.  7,  1903,  pp.  1,  5.) 

Elihu  Root  on  the  negro  problem. 

{In  Harper's  weekly,  vol.  47,  Feb.  21,  1903,  pp.  306-307.) 

Synopsis  of  speech  before  the  Union  League  Clul)  with  comment. 
Admits  the  failure  of  the  fifteenth  amendment. 

Scruggs,  William  L.     Citizenship  and  suffrage. 

{In  North  American  review,  vol.  177,  Dec,  1903,  pp.  837-846.) 

Discusses  the  suffrage  clauses  in  Southern  constitutions  and  their 
relation  to  the  fifteenth  amendment. 

Shall  the  fifteenth  amendment  be  repealed?     Editorial. 

{In  Independent,  vol.  55,  May  28,  1903,  pp.  1277-1278.) 

Opposed  to  repeal. 

Shall  we  have  a  sixteenth  amendment? 

{In  Gunton's  magazine,  vol.  27,  Nov.,  1904,  pp.  453-462.) 

Discusses  with  general  approval  the  proposition  advanced  by  C.  W. 
Thomas  in  the  North  American  review  for  a  sixteenth  amend- 
ment to  the  Constitution. 

"This  would  of  course  enable  any  state  to  exclude  from  the  fran- 
chise any  class  by  a  simple  legislative  enactment;  but  it  would, 
at  the  same  time,  proportionately  reduce  representation  of  that 
state  in  Congress  and  diminish  its  influence  in  the  federal  gov- 
ernment. ' ' 


LIST    ON    NK(JU(»    SUFFRAGE.  15 

Sinclair,  Williiini  A.     The  aftermath  of  yhivery;  a  study  of  the  con- 
dition and  environment  of  the  American   nej^ro,  witli  an 
introduction  by  Thomas  Wentworth  Hig'o-inson. 
Boston:  Sinall^Maynard  <&  company^  1905.    x'di^S58  pp.  12°. 

"The  war  on  negro  suffrage,"  pp.  104-152. 

"  With  the  ballot  the  negro  is  a  man;  an  American  among  Ameri- 
cans.    Without  the  ballot  he  is  a  serf,  less  than  a  slave;  a  thing." 

Smith,  Wilford  H.     Is  the  negro  disfranchised? 

[In  Outlook,  vol.  79,  April  29,  1905,  pp.  1047-1049.) 

Suffrage  and  representation. 

{Ill  Gunton's  magazine,  vol.  25,  August,  1903,  pp.  95-101.) 

Discusses  the  suffrage  amendments  to  the  Constitution.  Doubts 
the  feasibility  or  advisability  of  rei)eal  of  fifteenth  amendment. 

Suffrage  limitations  in  the  South.     Editorial. 

{In  Outlook,  vol.  76,  March  12,  1904,  pp.  632-634.) 

Thinks  that  the  provision  of  the  Constitution  of  the  southern  states 
do  not  in  fact  disfranchise  any  but  the  "ignorant  and  the  thrift- 
less negro." 

The  Supreme  Court  and  negro  suffrage. 

{In  World's  work,  vol.  6,  June,  1903,  pp.  3491-3493.) 

Brief  editorial  on  the  Alabama  case.  Thinks  the  disfranchisement 
of  the  negro  is  a  settled  fact,  and  nothing  but  military  force  can 
put  the  negro  in  possession  of  the  ballot. 

Thayer,  James  Bradle3^     Cases  on  constitutional  law. 

Cambridge:    Charles  W.  Sever  and  company,  1895.   '2  vols.    8°. 

Fourteenth  amendment,  pp.  374,  379,  459,  469,  521,  5.34,  536,  548, 
556,  564,  571,  572,  587,  611,  616,  625,  629,  636,  641,  646,  647,  675, 
680n.,  682,  689,  691,  745,  770,  774,  780,  789,  800,  872,  877,  942,  1169, 
1406,  1408. 

Fifteenth  amendment,  pp.  524,  553,  567,  571. 

Thomas,  Charles  W.     A  sixteenth  amendment. 

{Lt  North  American  review,  vol.  179,  September,  1904,  pp.  402^09.) 

The  proposed  amendment  repeals  sections  2  and  3  of  the  fourteenth 
and  all  of  the  fifteenth  amendment  and  provides  that  representa- 
tion shall  be  based  upon  the  number  of  citizens  who  are  permitted 
by  law  in  the  states  respectively  to  vote  for  President  and  Vice- 
President  and  for  representatives  in  Congress. 

Thorpe,  Francis  Newton.     The  constitutional  history  of  the  United 
States.     In  three  volimies.     Volume  3:  1861-1895. 
Chicago:    Callaghan  cfe  company,  1901.     5^. 

The  suffrage  amendment  .  .  .  its  ratification  as  the  fifteenth  amend- 
ment to  the  Constitution,  pp.  440-462. 


16  LIBRARY    OF    CONGRESS. 

Tourgee,  Albion  W.     Shall  white  minorities  rule? 

{In  Forum,  vol.  7,  April,  1889,  pp.  143-155.) 

A  protest  against  suppression  of  the  negro  vote  in  the  South. 

The  Union  league  club  on  disfranchisement. 

{In  Independent,  vol.  55,  December  17,  1903,  pp.  3008-3010.) 

Editorial  comment  on  the  resolutions  by  the  Union  league  club  in 
favor  of  reducing  the  representation  in  Congress  of  those  states 
which  limit  suffrage. 

United  States.     4-^st  Congress,  2d  sessio7i.     Senate  report  no.  187. 

Report  b}"  Mr.  Edmunds  from  the  Committee  on  the  judi- 
ciary, to  whom  was  referred  the  petition  of  citizens  of 
Rhode  Island  setting  forth,  b}"  reference,  the  14th  and  15th 
articles  of  amendment  to  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States,  and  stating  that  "the  State  of  Rhode  Island,  not- 
withstanding the  provisions  of  the  above-named  amend- 
ments, persists  in  and  b}'  the  first  section  of  article  2  of  the 
constitution  of  said  State,  in  denj'ing  and  abridging  the 
right  of  about  ten  thousand  citizens  of  the  United  States  to 
vote  at  any  and  all  elections  holden  in  said  State,"  and  pray- 
ing that  Congress  will  "'pass  such  appropriate  legislation 
as  may  l)e  found  necessary  to  obtain  for,  and  secure  to,  the 
citizens  of  the  United  States  resident  in  Rhode  Island  all 
the  rights,  privileges,  and  immunities  guaranteed  to  them 
by  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States."  May  26,  1870. 
2  pp.     8°. 

56th  Congress,  '2d  session.  House  report  no.  2130.  Apportion- 
ment among  the  several  States.  Report  from  the  Commit- 
tee on  the  Twelfth  Census.     December  20,  1900.     11:6  pp. 

8°. 

Views  of  Mr.  Crumpacker,  reviewing  legislation  in  Southern  States 
affecting  negro  suffrage,  in  which  he  gives  the  text  of  suffrage 
clauses  in  the  constitutions  of  Louisiana,  North  Carolina,  Missis- 
sippi, and  South  Carolina,  and  the  theory  of  the  Fourteenth 
amendment. 

Bureau  of  rolls  and   llhrary.     Documentar}"    history    of   the 

Constitution  of  the  United  States  of  America  1786-1870. 

Derived  from  records,  manuscripts,  and  rolls  deposited  in 

the  Bureau  of  rolls  and  library  of  the  Department  of  state. 

Washingto),:   Department  of  state,  1891^-1900  [1901].     3  vols. 

Fourteenth  amendment:  Resolution  of  Congress  proposing  Four- 
teenth amendment,  pp.  638-640;  Ratifications,  pp.  641-782;  Dec- 
laration of  the  Secretary  of  State  conditionally  announcing  the 


LIST    ON    NECJRO    SUFFRAGE.  17 

.adoption  of  the  Fourteenth  aniendinent,  pj).  783-787;  Declaration 
of  the  Secretary  of  State  i)Ositively  aiinouncin<rtlic  ailoplinn  of  the 
Foiirtcentli  aiuciKhiiciit,  pp.  788-794. 
Fifteentli  amendment:  Resolution  of  Congress  propossing  Fifteenth 
amendment,  pp.  795-796;  Ratifications,  pp.  797-896;  Declaration 
by  the  Secretary  of  State  of  the  ado[>tion  of  the  Fifteenth  amend- 
ment, pp.  893-895. 

United  States.  Supreme  court.  Giles  v.  Hanis.  Su})iiiitted  Fel). 
24:,  11)03,  decided  April  27,  1903.  Appeal  from  the  Circuit 
Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  middle  district  of 
Ala))ama  to  review  a  decree  which  dismissed,  for  want  of 
jurisdiction,  a  bill  in  equity  to  compel  the  board  of  regis- 
trars of  Montgomery  county  to  enroll  a  n(>gro  upon  the 
voting-  lists.  AtHrmed  opinion  by  Mr,  rlustice  Holmes. 
(7«  United  States  reports,  vol.  189,  pp.  475-504.    NewY(jrk,  1903.  8°.) 

Same. 

(//f  United  States.  Supreme  court.  Cases  argued  and  decided  in  the 
Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States,  October  term,  190l*,  vol. 
189,  pp.  475-504.     Rochester,  New  York,  1903.     8°.) 

Giles  V.   Teasley.     Argued   Jan.    5,    1904.     Decided 

Feb.  23,  1904.  In  error  to  the  Supreme  court  of  the  state 
of  Alabama  to  review  a  judgment  which  afiirmed  a  judgment 
of  the  City  court  of  Montgomery  in  that  state,  sustaining 
a  demurrer  to  the  petition  in  an  action  to  recover  damages 
for  the  refusal  of  the  board  of  registrars  of  Montgomery 
county  to  register  a  negro  as  an  elector.  Same.,  for  a  writ 
of  mandamus  to  compel  the  board  ...  to  register  a  negro 
as  an  elector.  Writs  of  error  in  both  cases  dismissed. 
Opinion  of  Mr.  Justice  Day. 

(In  United  States  reports,  vol.  193,  pp.  146-167.    New  York,  1904.    8°. ) 

Savie. 

(/?i  United  States.  Supreme  court.  Cases  argued  and  decided  in  the 
Supreme  court  of  the  ITnited  States,  October  term,  1903,  vol. 
193,  pp.  146-167.     Rochester,  N.  Y.,  1904.     8°.) 

Jones  V.  Montague.    Argued  April  4,  5, 1904.    Decided 

April  25,  1904.     Opinion  deliverecl  by  Mr.  Justice  Brewer. 

(Jn  United  States  reports,  vol.  194,  pp.  147-153.   New  York,  1904.    8°.) 


18  LIBRARY    OF    CONGRESS. 

Same. 

{In  United  States.  Supreme  court.  Cases  argued  and  decided  in  the 
Sui^reme  court  of  the  United  States,  October  term,  1903,  vol.  194, 
pp.  147-153.     Rochester,  N.  Y.,  1904.     8°.) 

This  action  was  brought  to  restrain  the  issuance  of  certificates  of 
election  to  jiersons  elected  under  the  new  constitution  of  Virginia 
"  wliich  it  was  alleged  was  designed  to  accomplish  the  disfran- 
chisement of  the  colored  voters  of  that  state." 

Weeks,  Stephen  B.     The  history  of  negro  sutirage  in  the  South. 
{In  Political  science  quarterly,  vol.  9,  Dec,  1894,  pp.  671-703.) 

Subject  considered  under  the  following  captions:  1.  Before  the 
Revolution;  2.  From  the  Revolution  to  the  Civil  war;  3.  The 
evolution  of  negro  suffrage;  4.  Negro  rule  and  its  results;  5.  The 
present  status  of  negro  suffrage. 

WickliflFe,  John  C.     Negro  tsutl'rage  a  failure:  shall  we  abolish  it? 
{In  Forum,  vol.  14,  Feb.,  1893,  pp.  797-804.) 

Advocates  repeal  of  the  fifteenth  amendment.  "The  Northern  idea 
of  negro  political  equality  must  be  abandoned.  The  Southern 
advantages  of  additional  representation  must  be  abandoned." 

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